Music of quality, in the context of worship, does not entertain or divert. It reveals. […]

Any work of art, be it sculpture, painting, literature, poetry or music, whose implications are immediately obvious and can instantly be grasped can never enlist our imagination, and so cannot equip us for mystery; and what cannot equip us for mystery cannot equip us for God.

Thank-you for praying for me and my lads during what has been a challenging week. Since I’m not sure when I’ll be back, Deirdre (aka Mouse) has stepped up and taken charge of Novena duty. Starts tomorrow. To St. Joseph the Worker. For details, click here. To read the testimonies of some of the families for who we will pray, click here.

Today is the last day of our novena to Our Lady of Good Remedy for friends and family stuck in LC/RC. To find out more on Our Lady of Good Remedy, and how this novena began, please click here. Basically, it was under the title Our Lady of Good Remedy that the Blessed Mother miraculously helped St. John of Matha free thousands of Christians enslaved to Muslim overlords. Here is the daily Novena prayer, which I invite you to join me in praying for Catholics enslaved by